[Libguestfs] Strange libtool problem

[Jim Meyering]

Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> I'm not sure if this is related to me updating to gcc 4.6.0 or not,
> but in the gnulib/lib directory I get an error which comes down to the
> following libtool command running:
>
> $ ../../libtool --tag=CC --mode=compile gcc -std=gnu99 -std=gnu99
> -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../.. -g -O2 -MT c-ctype.lo -MD -MP -MF
> .deps/c-ctype.Tpo -c -o c-ctype.lo c-ctype.c
> ../../libtool: line 2075: c-ctype.c: command not found
> libtool: compile: gcc -std=gnu99 -std=gnu99 -DHAVE_CONFIG_H
> -I. -I../.. -g -O2 -MT c-ctype.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/c-ctype.Tpo -c ""
> -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/c-ctype.o
> gcc: error: : No such file or directory
> gcc: fatal error: no input files
> compilation terminated.
>
> Note how the -c option is converted to -c "".  Also the error
> "c-ctype.c: command not found" which comes from a function very deep
> in libtool which is called from all over the place.
>
> I've tried recreating libtool, but to no effect.

I confirmed that I saw the same problem.
Rich mentioned that he'd worked around this by running "make distclean"
and building from scratch.

That solved it for me, too.
Thanks!